As you know all the Internet traffic is routed using IP addressing only. DNS (Domain Name System) does an actual resolution from domain names to IP addresses, back and forth. Every domain must have a DNS record at some DNS server otherwise it would not be visible in the Internet. Read our InterNIC / Domain FAQs. Another name for DNS protocol suite is BIND. There are currently two BIND versions in use: BIND 4 and BIND 8. When you register a new domain at rs.internic.net, you are required to submit DNS server name and address. At this point you have two choices: register your domain with our DNS server (ns1.gometanet.com, ns2.gometanet.com) or configure your own name server. Choosing your own DNS server may be a better solution if you will need to deal with DNS records for your own clients. Configuring your own name server is a relatively easy task. DNS daemon is named and it comes with our UNIX installation. First thing you need to do is to configure /etc/named.boot file for BIND 4. Same file has a name of named.conf for BIND 8. From the name of this file in /etc directory you can find out what version of BIND (DNS) your OS is running. To learn how DNS works read man page for named, or buy a book: DNS and BIND, see Recommended Books. Under Windows NT we will install Microsoft DNS Service upon your request.
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